When the bird and the book disagree, believe the bird.

To be a good draftsman was to me a blessing.

A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children.

Hunting, fishing, drawing, and music occupied my every moment. Cares I knew not, and cared naught about them.

But hopes are shy birds flying at a great distance, seldom reached by the best of guns.

I can scarcely manage to scribble a tolerable English letter. I know that I am not a scholar, but meantime I am aware that no man living knows better than I do the habits of our birds.

One day I caught four Dolphins, how much I have gazed at these beautiful creatures... as they changed their hue in twenty varieties of richest arrangement of tints.

Never give up listening to the sounds of birds.

In my deepest troubles, I frequently would wrench myself from the persons around me and retire to some secluded part of our noble forests.

During all these years there existed within me a tendency to follow Nature in her walks.

The worse my drawings were, the more beautiful did the originals appear.

Excellence begins in the mind. Discipline yourself to be an excellent person at what you want. Everything big, once started little.

The most beautiful, amazing and inevitable fact about life- Everything has a natural healing process.

I am dramatic, " said Will. "If i had not been a Shadowhunter, i would have had a future on the stage.

Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.

If I’d just listened—just taken one second to listen—it wouldn’t have happened

Testing, we will never do enough of it.

Man by violating his own feelings becomes cruel. And how deeply seated in the human heart is the injunction not to take life.

I've always had a sense of humour, and I still do, so I just want to go on performing as long as I can. It's as simple as that.

Zen people love Buddha so tremendously that they can even play jokes upon him. It is out of great love; they are not afraid.

No matter what happens in life, never lose sight of who you are.